Thank you to special guest editor, artist and poet John Di Leonardo, for selecting my poem, “The Line, The Curve,” as one of the responses to his piece, “Nude Study.” You can read my poem and the rest of the responses here.
Poem in The Ekphrastic Review
Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings 
Nice painting
Congratulations Merril. I went over and read your poem. You reminded me of a Gaudi quote – “The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.”
Thank you, Frank! And interesting that’s where you mind went.
But look at the image – the ratio of curves to straight lines isn’t close. Gaudi was on to something.
Well, a man drew it. . .😏
That’s not a good answer.
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Looking at the pic, must of the curves are off the body
Congratulations! I looked at this one and it didn’t give me anything at all. Well done for finding so much in it 🙂
Thank you! 😀. I wasn’t sure at first, but then this came to me. I didn’t get anything from the Warhol, but there were some great responses.
It’s good! You saw a lot in the shape of the image.
I didn’t do the Warhol either. I was working to finish a story that was just getting longer and longer. Finally finished polishing it today!
😀. Good for you! I’m working on a bunch of things, but I don’t seem to get anything done!
It was hard to be motivated about this one, since it will probably get the same reaction as all of my novels, great story, beautiful writing but not commercial enough. Anyway, it’s finished and I’m pleased with it, so there’s that 🙂
Yes, there’s that. 😀.
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Beautiful! And congratulations.
I got a polite rejection letter, but I notice he picked no haibun or prose. One of these days I’ll do the art for my piles of rejections and post some of it. (k)
You do rejection note art? I’m intrigued.
That would be interesting, but no, I meant to do art to illustrate all those rejected poems. Although perhaps I should revise the poems too as well.
Oh, OK! I enjoy seeing poems with illustrations.
Kerfe always adds her own art to ekphrastic prompts.
I’ll have to check it out!
Thank you. It was different having the artist as editor. Perhaps he had very definite ideas of what he was looking for.
We all have piles of rejections. I think you should post them with art–or in your art as a collage or use them in some creative way. 😀
That’s an interesting idea with a lot of possibilities. Of course I have an idea pile as high as my pile of rejections. I’m still trying to get focused and organized enough to be productive. It seems to be an uphill climb.
Congrats, Merril! Lovely response!
Thank you very much, Luanne! I was a bit intimidated by this one, since the artist was also the guest editor.
Congrats, Merril.
This is a beautiful poem to go with this image. Love the first two lines:
“Stilled and moving—is it
exhaustion or despair you felt then in that second? Did I ask?”
Okay… loved the whole thing but went back because of these 🙂
I’m with you on your response to “The Line, The Curve”!
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Thank you, Liz!
You’re welcome, Merril!
Thank you so much, Dale. I really appreciate that you let me know those lines stood out for you. 💙
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Congratulations, Merril! You are indeed a pro!
Thank you, Jill. 😀
I do enjoy ekphrastic poetry–and yours is a particularly good one. Congratulations on the well-deserved publication!
Thank you very much, Liz!
You’re most welcome, Merril!
So well observed and insightfully depicted
Thank you very much, Derrick.
Congratulations on being accepted. Lovely poem and I learned a new word: tessellated!
Thank you so much, Marie!
I enjoyed the beautiful writing more than the image, really nice. Do check this for too. https://societalens.wordpress.com/blog/
Thank you very much.